In the past I had the ability to articulate the more subtle experiences of meditation and the thought process of the mind but upon my last return of two intense months of seva alongside the Guru I had returned to find that nothing was left! Erased. Gone were all reference points!
For one to explain where one has gone there has to be a point A, and once you get to where you are going you arrive at point B. If there is no original point (point A) than explain how you got to point B!
...see that! The nothingness pervades that without a point of reference.
I am left speechless when someone asks me how my time is at the ashram, how my time is on tour with the Guru. To live in the moment is to surrender the definition of the moments as they pass, it is an endless stream of moments that amount to this very moment and as those pass you are left with the very moment you are in! To be in the moment is to surrender the definition of what has happened and to live in the very moment that becomes the next. In this stream you begin to glide and the current takes you to the final fusion with spirit (the ocean).
One starts like condensation in the air, accumulating in the clouds and falling down as moisture upon the leaf of a tree; dripping off onto the floor of the forest and seaping into the soil down to the stream, into the river and eventually the ocean. This natural flow is our life and to surrender to its flow is to allow life to live you, with no resistance the flow to the ocean is rapid! By resisting, building dams, holding back the water with force will all slow the process. To stand on the banks of the river is to do a great disservice to yourself and all of humanity because when you surrender to the river its trusted banks and graceful current know its meeting point with the Ocean - surrender and all will be safe.
What a thought! Surrender and all will be safe! but think of the journey of this very moisture in the air and you can get a sense of the journey we are all on!
OM! Gaurang.
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